Local history books

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United We Stand: Pre WW II-Chronicles of the Italian Colony of Stamford

United We Stand: Pre WW II-Chronicles of the Italian...

Author: Anthony Socci
ISBN: 9781955995078
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"""Beyond their worthiness and to be selfish, the recording and preservation of the Italian American history and...  Read More >>

Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime

Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime

Author: Michael Delaware
ISBN: 9781467156073
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Murder and mystery haunt the shadowy corners of the Victorian Era in Southwest Michigan. Decades after his supposed...  Read More >>

Railways Around York

Railways Around York

Author: Mike Wedgewood
ISBN: 9781802826807
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This book follows the railways that serve the city and surrounding areas.  Read More >>

Excavating Fort Raleigh: Archaeology at England's First Colony

Excavating Fort Raleigh: Archaeology at England's First...

Author: Dr Noel Hume ,  Dr Klingelhofer
ISBN: 9781467156448
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Dig into a first-hand account of excavations at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. A small earthen fort on Roanoke...  Read More >>

The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown: Serving the Mahoning Valley Since 1874

The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown: Serving the Mahoning...

Author: Thomas G Welsh Jr ,  Michele Ristich Gatts
ISBN: 9781467156547
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Pioneers in Ministry When six Ursuline nuns stepped off a train in September 1874, they encountered a smoky industrial...  Read More >>

South Dakota Crusader: Francis Case's Road to Congress

South Dakota Crusader: Francis Case's Road to Congress...

Author: Stephen L Wilson
ISBN: 9780978960018
Format: Paperback
$55.44

This book describes a principled and accomplished South Dakotan who spent the first half of his life preparing for...  Read More >>

Soggy Ground: A Geography of Pine Barrens Wetlands.

Soggy Ground: A Geography of Pine Barrens Wetlands....

Author: Mark Demitroff
ISBN: 9781947889217
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A history of little known ice age landforms and their importance to the New Jersey Pine Barrens.  Read More >>

Biographical Sketches on Burke County, Georgia Persons

Biographical Sketches on Burke County, Georgia Persons...

Author: Albert M Hillhouse
ISBN: 9781639142040
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"BY: Albert Hillhouse, Pub. 1982, reprinted 2024, 224 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-204-0. Burke County...  Read More >>

Historias y leyendas de Barcelona

Historias y leyendas de Barcelona

Author: Joan de D�u Prats Pijoan
ISBN: 9788492442881
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Descubrir los hechos hist�ricos y legendarios que forman el pasado de Barcelona nos da profundidad para entenderla...  Read More >>

Eastwick Letters

Eastwick Letters

Author: David J Knapp ,  Igor Kuvaldin
ISBN: 9781039179134
Format: Hardback
$211.17

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Richwood Revisited: More Tales from the Historic Village

Richwood Revisited: More Tales from the Historic Village...

Author: Dustin Lowe
ISBN: 9798218373962
Format: Hardback
$65.97

What do you know about Richwood, Ohio? You might think it's just another small town in the Midwest, but you'd be...  Read More >>

Abstracts from the State Gazette of North Carolina, 1796-1799, Volume #3

Abstracts from the State Gazette of North Carolina,...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639142033
Format: Paperback
$66.00

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1984, reprinted 2024, 112 pages, Index, 8 1/2"" x 11"", ISBN #978-1-63914-203-3....  Read More >>

What to See in Palm Springs, Local Tour Guide Tells All: Sights, History & Stories

What to See in Palm Springs, Local Tour Guide Tells...

Author: John Stark
ISBN: 9798218128562
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A must-have guidebook for anyone visiting Palm Springs and for anyone living in or around this desert resort city,...  Read More >>

Sunrise Homeland

Sunrise Homeland

Author: Peter McHale
ISBN: 9798884305564
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Sunrise Homeland weaves a captivating tale of friendship and spirit of adventure against the backdrop of 1920's...  Read More >>

The Lies of the Land Lib/E: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't

The Lies of the Land Lib/E: Seeing Rural America for...

Author: Steven Conn ,  Tom Perkins
ISBN: 9798874697006
Format: Audio
$190.05

"A ""piercing, unsentimental"" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis....  Read More >>

Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence

Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color...

Author: Tara Dudley
ISBN: 9781477328552
Format: Paperback
$68.99

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed...  Read More >>

Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America

Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making...

Author: Brian M. Ingrassia
ISBN: 9780252087660
Format: Paperback
$56.99

How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America’s car culture The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis...  Read More >>

We Live in the Water: Climate, Aging, and Socioecology on Smith Island

We Live in the Water: Climate, Aging, and Socioecology...

Author: Jana Kopelent Rehak (University of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9781421448428
Format: Paperback
$82.99

""This work illustrates how people like Smith Islanders claim their lives in an ecologically changing unstable place""--...  Read More >>

Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell

Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom...

Author: Jason P. Chambers
ISBN: 9780252087646
Format: Paperback
$56.99

The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertising Over a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom...  Read More >>

From the Mountains to the Prairies

From the Mountains to the Prairies

Author: George Holloway
ISBN: 9798887319742
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande: Borderland Animal Fights at the Turn of the Century

Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande: Borderland Animal...

Author: Bradley Folsom
ISBN: 9781467155335
Format: Paperback
$65.97

How the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome appeared on the Texas frontier. From 1895 to 1913, promoters on the...  Read More >>

Historic Indianapolis Fires & Disasters

Historic Indianapolis Fires & Disasters

Author: Jack E Finney
ISBN: 9781467155052
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Circle City Catastrophes Disaster was a fact of everyday life in 1800s and early 1900s Indianapolis. During the...  Read More >>

Florida Prohibition: Corruption, Defiance & Tragedy

Florida Prohibition: Corruption, Defiance & Tragedy...

Author: Randy Jaye
ISBN: 9781467155823
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Prohibition is recognized as the most unpopular law in US history. It was so unpopular at the time that some Floridians...  Read More >>

Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History

Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist...

Author: David Ponton, III
ISBN: 9781477328477
Format: Hardback
$92.00

A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.  Read More >>

Black Diamonds from the Treasure State

Black Diamonds from the Treasure State

Author: R Schalla
ISBN: 9780253068194
Format: Hardback
$82.99

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